For Manish, Aadyam is a movement to reinstate the respect handloom deserves. “We continually work towards feeding the looms ...

Beyond this, though, the book contains surprisingly few object histories, for a family memoir in an age of Instagrammable nostalgia. It quickly becomes clear that Husain, a well-known BBC ...

Parsis, Zoroastrian immigrants from what was once Persia, have contributed much to the warp and weft of Mumbai's fabric ... a gorgeous new book put together by Bachi Karkaria, inimitable author ...

(Do not miss catching a very young Romila Thapar, her aunt and eminent historian of ancient India, in a striped sari among the family photographs in the book.) Singh herself became a key figure in ...

It is very versatile in its uses. These two pieces have woolen warp and weft. The starting borders are card-woven, and one has card-woven selvages. (The card-woven selvage provides for a neater edge ...

used in clothing and carpets Woven fabrics use a warp and weft yarn on a loom to interlock fibres. Woven fabric Physical properties Working properties Plain weave Threads are woven in a simple ...

Tar-o-Pud Museum, a tribute to textile heritage On March 1, the Tar-o-Pud (meaning “Warp and Weft”) Museum, dedicated to the rich history of Iranian textiles, was officially inaugurated within the ...